Daily Republican., 1887-06-06
An Amateur hight Waterman
by EDMUND HOLLY.

by EDMUND HOLLY.
"Well, Fred, what wonderful in
vention have you now!"
Nothing wonderful, uncle; only q
telegraph"
"A telegraph. eh? What does i,
communicate with"
at runs up to the house; didn't you
notice the wire as you came down this
morning."
swell. go ahead with your tele-
graph; expect will come home
some day and find you have blown up
the house with gunpowder-or, nitro
Iglycerine is your favorite, l believe,
for things of that kind"
blushed. In pursuing my recrea-
tons in natural science had, the
week before, carefully arranged mine
In secluded part of our garden, using
for the purpose some dynamite cart
ridges lett by the men who had been
blasting out a cellar. had connected
the mine with the house by an electric
wire, intending to fire it on fourth of
July morning. Bridget, the maid,
being of an inquisitiyc turn of mind
occasionally conducts private expert
ments of her own with my apparatus.
and the consequence in this case was
| that the neighborhood was startled,
and the inmates cf the house terrified,
one peaceful Sunday morning, by an
lawful explosion, which shook the
ground. However, this is not telling
lmy story.
~ shall have to go away again this
morning" continued my uncle. "and
| have just heard that Watkins, the
might Waterman, is i'll, and cannot be
ut the bank tonight Couldn't you
manage to sleep in here tonight? l
don't suppose it's really necessary. but
we expect large sum of money to ar
rive this afternoon, and / would feel
easier if l knew that somebody was
near the premises. see you have O
Lounge here; can you manage it?"
| was only too delighted to accept.
THE place where this conversation
took place, and which called my
Laboratory, was little shed attached
to one side OF the building occupied by
Imy uncle's bank. l had repaired il
land made it habitable-in summer
land filed 1t with batteries, coils, tubes
chemicals and other appliances. Here
| l spent most of my leisure time, and
there had constructed steam engine,
Iand-my latest triumphs-an electric
Telegraph. If slept here tonight
|could sit up as late as l pleased, per
fecting the details of my compound
ldynsmo-electric multigraph, from
(which | expected great results.
The bank closed at 4, but labored
on the multigraph till 6, when wen
ihome, distance of quarter of
mile, to obtain a little refrcshment t
fortify me against the toll Of the night
| And talking OF home, l must tell yo,
about Clara.
Now this is not love story-not I
!bit of love in it-but have right t
lhave II girl in it, haven't l, if sh
doesn't get married and live liappil,
lever atter2 Yes, exactly, and if yol
want to finish this story off and max
her fall in love with somebody, yo'
ara at perfect liberty to do it..
| Well, there is not much to tell abou
Clara. She is my cousin, and she i
) II years old, which is just my age, al.
Though you would think she was a
least fifteen years older by the way sh
Il patronizes me. She makes fun of m
multig-aph, and calls it the ''compoun
dynamo and so FORTH" and pretend
, not to understand the principles OF il
8 although have explained it to her O
least dozen times. But she SCENE
interested in the telegraph, and wante
a line to run to her room, so fixed u
1.-TWO instruments and connected them
land we learned the Morse alphabet OF
iof book l had, and were gettin
alonS finely. Each OF us could sen
livery fast, although the reading came
little harder.
worked hard on the multigrsp
f latter supper, but somehow could NJ
make much progress. l found it diff
e icult TO make the proper connection b.
Tween the primary induction coil an
: the rotary conservator.th result bein
dI--but l will not explain it to the publ
till | get my patent.
IL Weary and perplexed, at about !
" NpSh = thiOV ny oSit NPoh ehS iouh Z
to get q moments rest.
Il The next thing l knew blndir
Hight was flashing into my face, and
iiieasl the furniture in the room beir
:. movedAa sprang to my feet, and W,
. instantlyahrown back on to the lounl
y by strong hand. had not gathers
> my wits together alter being SO su
denly awakened, and struggled air
n lessly to freeMyself.
Lie still, You little fool" growl'
n the man WHO was holding me; and
III Ian instant kas on my face, and
OF was tying my hands behind my bsc
OF Then he'rollcd me over and d
IL Isomethiag in my mouth that preyen
led my,fnaking any outcry, and n$ar
liHeSented my breathing, aud ahe
HJwi.h rather unnecessary oSre,
Ithought-ior by fhis time l wis pc
lfoctly quiet--he bound my Enk,
Tightly together with piece of saarl
~ Srope.
90 By this time / had begun to resi-
ss bmy situation. Plainly, this gentleuiI
e who objected So decidedly to my MIS-
=" ling any movement or noise was res